# Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott has 184,901 words.

## At a glance

1819 novel by Walter Scott.

- **Author:** [Walter Scott](https://musael.com/books/authors/walter-scott.md) (1771–1832)
- **First published:** 1819
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 184,901
- **Reading time:** 12 h 20 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 19 h 53 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 15 h 25 min | 31 days |
| 250 wpm | 12 h 20 min | 25 days |
| 300 wpm | 10 h 16 min | 21 days |

## Read or listen

Ivanhoe is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/walter-scott/ivanhoe
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/82
- LibriVox audiobook (19 h 25 min): https://librivox.org/ivanhoe-by-sir-walter-scott/

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 193,543
- Chapters: 44
- Dialogue: 48% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 28.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/walter-scott/ivanhoe (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/82 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q840974
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanhoe
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL863808W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/82

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/ivanhoe